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Akazome Emon viewing the moon from her palace chambers
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| January 1887 | ||
| Akazome Emon (956-1041) was a celebrated woman poet of the Heian court. After a long, sleepless night awaiting the arrival of her lover, she writes, “I wish I had gone to bed immediately; but now the night has passed and I watch the moon descend.” |
